Thread by @DawsonSField

A great find by @SeamusHughes!

An unsealed search warrant revealed that the FBI infiltrated the secure phone industry & had a confidential source introduce global criminals to an encrypted communications system while the FBI had the keys to kingdom!
#ButNothingsHappening

So the FBI & Australian Federal Police used their source, who was a major distributor for Phantom Secure, to get mobsters, Swamp creatures & terrorists to switch to the FBI's new phone service Anom.
3 times a week the FBI & AFP were getting a download of all messages!

As law enforcement around the world shut down other encrypted phone networks, criminals were herded onto the new 'secure' system Anom!
300 transnational organizations
11,000 users
20M messages

All sent through the FBI's Trojan Horse (which is the unoriginal name they gave it.)

The FBI was monitoring criminals in 90 countries, with all of their encrypted messages going to a secret server in a 3rd country where every message was decrypted, tagged with a user identifier code, then reencrypted & sent on to their intended recipient.

So instead of just 'knowing' things based on unsourced tweets & made up discussions about sealed cases, take time to explore the evidence we are getting when cases are unsealed & tell us what is really happening!

Later this morning, I will break down some of the details that jump out at me from this warrant! documentcloud.org/documents/2079…

Correction to the tweet above: AFP & FBI called the operation Trojan Shield, not Trojan Horse. Still not very original!

I will get into the details as I go along, but this search warrant application was for 1 email address through Google's gmail. This is likely 1 of the 15 identified US users of the Amon phone system. DOJ is now getting the evidence in an admissible format for US court cases.

The next couple of pages is the affiant, the FBI agent that signs the application, proving that he knows what he is talking about. This helps explain why he is qualified to say actions of the defendant provide probable cause for the warrant.

Then they provide background on the 2017-2018 Phantom Secure case, a Canadian supplier of "Hardened Encrypted Devices." It was a system designed to evade law enforcement surveillance & evidence collection.

Phantom Secure sold encrypted phones from 2008-2018 primarily to drug cartels & organized crime groups.

After the Phantom Secure arrests, FBI flipped one of their distributors into a Confidential Human Source. He offered them a next generation secure device & system called Anom that he had been developing. He also offered to sell the new device to his old customers for the FBI!

The other criminal communications network that he sold products for was indicted in March of 2021 under RICO. Sky Global was shutdown due to these indictments.

The CHS, FBI & AFP then designed a concealed back door in the Anom system to route all communications to a server in a 3rd country, where it is decrypted, filed a evidence, & then re-encrypted & sent to it's recipient.

50 test phones were sold to a drug trafficking organization in Australia to test the program. The Aussies were reviewing the results & found 100% of the phone users were using them for criminal activities. Giving US probable cause to start listening too! .

The 3rd country, began providing the FBI with the data from the Anom system which was growing in popularity among the cartels & smugglers. Australian law prohibited them from sharing directly with the FBI. Phones in the US were filtered out to avoid 4th Amendment issues.

From October 2019 until this week, the FBI has received as evidence more than 20 million messages from 11,800 users of this system. 9000 were still using them when this warrant was unsealed!

Criminals in more than 90 countries were using this system to sell drugs & launder money on a global basis, while FBI read it all!

The messages have lead to "numerous high-level public corruption cases in several countries."
Because drug cartels & organized crime buy Swamp creatures to protect them.

The TCOs (Transnational crime organizations) used multiple brands of encrypted networks in order to keeps them separate to thwart law enforcement. Which doesn't help much when law enforcement is providing the phones & network so they can read it!

In addition, law enforcement busted up other secure networks & herded the criminals onto Anom by taking away their other options! The March 2021 indictments drove 6000 new users to the AFP & FBI's network!

There is a long list of individual cases exposed by Amon.
One that interests me is someone using French government Diplomatic Pouches to smuggle cocaine out of Columbia. @DrStefool

The crooks also sent 450,000 screenshots of conversations on other encrypted networks, providing evidence of what is going on within the other systems!
Including evidence of dirty cops tipping off the cartels about reports & warrants.

The gmail being searched under the warrant reportedly belongs to a Liam Davis who may have used the screen name Sion in the conversations with Tom Ford of Australia (These may all be aliases) Sending fake invoices & tracking over gmail for the drug shipments.

So FBI got this warrant to seize the email account to find evidence of these drug shipments.

FBI had the warrant filed under seal because of many ongoing investigations around the world. But listed that the foreign warrant expired on 6/7/21.
Now the crooks have to guess if the warrant was replaced by a new one, or if the coast is clear t o continue their crimes!

Of course, now they will have to worry about which other networks the FBI, AFP or other law enforcement agencies have compromised & are monitoring as we speak!
Can't wait until they get to the money laundering parts of this case! Or maybe they already have! #ButNothingsHappening

As people always seem to doubt the FBI is doing anything with this information in spite of copious evidence, I'm going to cite a few cases.
Like busting the Director of Intelligence for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police selling 5eyes intel to cartels.

Last summer thousand s of arrests were made connected to French & Dutch police cracking the EncroChat network. British police credited the info with helping them stop 200 kidnapping & executions related to the drug trade & organized crime.

Hundreds of people have already been arrested as part of this investigation Trojan Shield including 224 in Australia. thedailybeast.com/fbi-reveals-it…

The arrests almost certainly include two former airport employees in Sydney & a Director fo a national security company on cocaine smuggling charges. They are also investigating laundering of $100s of millions through casinos in Australia for the drugs.